11+ hour, 17+ min ago   (823+ words) In 1986, Maine held its first modern-day spring turkey hunting season. The hunt was limited to York County, where turkeys had been successfully reintroduced in the mid-1970s after two failed attempts by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and local…...

11+ hour, 17+ min ago   (784+ words) FREEPORT, Maine — Bob Masciarelli has split his ticket to back Republicans before. The 70-year-old Democrat from Yarmouth is the kind of voter U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has counted on to outrun her party in Maine’s liberal-leaning Portland suburbs. But he…...

11+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1316+ words) HARTLAND, Maine — Debbie Cooper left this town five years ago, but she still keeps the green T-shirt that serves as a relic of her failed campaign to stop a landfill expansion. “Close it today to protect our tomorrow,” it reads....

23+ hour, 51+ min ago   (90+ words) Bangor Daily News An 83-year-old inmate of the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston died Friday afternoon, according to the Maine Department of Corrections. The death of Ronald Paquin was attended by medical personnel, according to a press release. In…...

1+ day, 59+ min ago   (712+ words) You can’t quite see Canada from the Fort Fairfield Blockhouse, but its presence looms. The international border is some 3.5 miles — 5.6 kilometers — east up the Aroostook River from the reconstructed war fort. Of course, when it was originally built in 1839, it…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (247+ words) A 13-year-old boy was killed and two others seriously injured when they were hit by a car near 512 Warren Ave. in Portland Saturday night. The crash happened at about 8:45 p.m., when a group of teenage boys was walking on the north…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (712+ words) The days are getting shorter and the air is getting colder, but there are still a handful of classic waterfront camps on the market. Maine’s real estate market tends to be busiest throughout the warmer months, but things remain active…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (567+ words) This story was originally published in September 2022. Our original plan to complete a four-day sea kayak excursion along the Bold Coast in eastern Maine was aborted after the first day due to foggy weather and turbulent seas. Six Penobscot Paddle…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1106+ words) When Jedediah Talbot started his business as a professional trail builder in Maine in 2004, he had a hard time finding work in the state. For five years, he mostly got jobs in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. “It was an uphill…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (738+ words) You can add a new entry to Cooper Flagg’s remarkable resume which already includes NCAA Division I Player of the Year when he was Duke, first overall NBA draft choice and NBA Rookie of the Year. The 19-year-old phenom from…...